PSDhttp://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd1/nepsd-frame.html – Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project – could have been fantastic, except that they seem to think it was perfect and stopped back in ‘2006 – no interest in unicodes / putting everything together. Anyway, once you get the hang of it, you can see Steve Tinney and his colleagues have still done a terrific job.

As mentioned earlier the problem with fancy databases of the zillion dollar endowment elite university professors with lifetime salaries is that plebs like us (especially considering the average web user’s short attention span of 5 nano seconds) struggle to find actual Sumerian cuneiform on their databases – just boring pages of English alphabet. That you now get straight up with the Mugsar QuickFinder and 4-Way. So for true reference, to really get a feel for what the Sumerian scribes were trying to say, it seems easier to go back to the Sumerian cuneiform icebraking codebreaking pioneers of a century ago, like these guys below where you can instantly and easily browse their works on the amazing Internet Archive: